Andy Green is not going to be the next full-time manager of the New York Mets. He said so himself this week, and the reason has nothing to do with baseball.
Green told Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic that he is prioritizing his family over the permanent job. His twin daughters have one year left in high school, and Green wants to be present for it. Any dad would.
“The family consideration is real,” Green said. “We’re all trying to do the best we can balancing career and family.”
That is a completely reasonable answer, and it should not be treated like some tragedy for the Mets. It might actually be the best possible outcome for a team that fired Carlos Mendoza in late June and has been searching for a real long-term identity ever since.
Green, 49, has gone 26-27 as the interim skipper. That is respectable given the mess he inherited. The Mets are still an NL East-worst 60-74, but they have played better under Green than the raw record suggests. He steadied a clubhouse in freefall and kept veterans engaged in a season that has felt lost since May.
Here is the twist. Green could still stay in the organization. The Athletic report notes he could be a candidate for general manager, a role that is currently vacant. That would let Green stay close to his family in a less all-consuming job while giving the Mets a front-office voice who already knows the roster inside and out.
Green joined the Mets in 2023 as Senior Vice President for Player Development after coaching stints with the Diamondbacks and Cubs. He is a former Mets player himself. The institutional knowledge is real.
So who becomes the next Mets manager? All signs point to Carlos Beltran. Reports earlier this summer said Beltran is the front office’s clear top choice, and the Mets have been waiting on Green’s decision to formally begin that pursuit. Beltran was famously hired and then dismissed before ever managing a game because of the Astros sign-stealing scandal. This would be a full-circle moment for both the franchise and the player.
The bigger picture is not complicated. Green did a fine job under impossible circumstances. He is stepping aside for the right reasons. And the Mets get to walk into the offseason with their top managerial target available and a potential GM candidate already in-house.
That is not a disaster. That is a plan. The Mets have had very few of those in 2026. This one might actually work.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
